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Comment by beebeepka | Hacker News Reader

I read the complainant and still don't get what the problem is. This person is unable to write a review for a version of game that does not have a dedicated (for that specific version) store page.

This leads to downloading 57.51gb how?

Edit: thanks everyone. I guess I have never reviewed a game I don't have installed. They do show play time next to each review. Seems like a better metric than having the game installed lol

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Steam doesn't let you review games you haven't downloaded, meaning in order to review the game he has to download the version which has a store page.

Which sounds like a fantastic feature to cut down on review spam.

Apparently buying the enhanced version included a licence to the regular version and only the latter is used for greenlighting reviews despite buyers going straight to the enhanced. Seems like the studio was trying something clever in terms of branding an update as a remaster or vice versa and ended up setting some metadata in some unfortunate combination.

Because I guess when using the Steam client it requires that you have the game installed that you are trying to leave a review for, or have some play time.. since the version they played doesn't have a store page, they had to download the one that does in order to leave the review.

They're going to write a review for the version that does have a store page, and are being required to download that version first.

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